永宁翠雀花 yong ning cui que hua

Stem 55--80 cm tall, spreading hispid, simple or 1-branched. Leaf blade ca. 7 cm wide, base cordate; primary lobes separate for at least 75% of blade radius; central lobe rhombic, 3-cleft, distally incised dentate, apex acute; ultimate lobules narrowly triangular to linear; proximal leaves not withered. Raceme terminal, elongate, 40--70 cm, laxly 6--22-flowered, strigose and yellow glandular puberulent; proximal bracts leaflike, distal ones sessile, 3-sect or undivided. Pedicels erect-spreading, 0.6--12 cm; bracteoles distal, linear, 0.6--1.4 cm. Sepals blue-purple, abaxially sparsely strigose; spur subulate, 1.7--2 cm, base 3--3.5 mm in diam.; other sepals 1.3--1.7 cm. Petals undivided, glabrous. Staminode limb oblong, 2-lobed, yellow barbate. Filaments glabrous. Carpels 3; ovaries pubescent. Fl. Jun.

* Moist slopes; 3300--4000 m. NW Yunnan (Lijiang Naxi Zu Zizhixian: Yongning).